Improvement in clothes-washer



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\ JAMES K. DUGDALE, OF WHITE WATER, INDIANA.

Letters Patent No. 98,856, dated January 18, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-WASHER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent. and making part of the same.

Be it known that I, JAMES K. DUGDALE," of White Water-,in the county of Wayne, and State of :Indiana,

have invented a new and useful Clothes-Washer; and

I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact'description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being bad to the annexed drawing, making a part of this specification A being a. perspective view of a clothes-holder, with a rubber or roller attached to the lower end, the two, in connection, forming a clothes-washer.

G is the frame.-

H, a movable board.

M, a stationary cross-piece. V

E, a sliding rod, passing through said cross-piece, and fastened in the moyahle hoard H.

R, a knob, attached to the upper end of rod E.

There are notches-in said'rod at f, in which the bolt g catches.

The bolt is pressed against the rod E, by spring i, or equivalent thereto.

The bolt may be stationary, and the notches turned underit by turning the-rod.

N is the roller or rubber, the journals of which work at the lower .end ot' s ide pieces of frame G.

The clothes are put in the opening made by raising board H, which, being pushed down, they are fast ened in.

In operating, the rubber N may beat the clothes" against the bottom of a waslrtuh, in'which a washboard is fastened, and the clothes may be drawn up and down on said wash-board.

An extra pressure is obtained by applying one hand to the cross-piece M. v

\Vash-hoards and tubs in general use may be nse'l, and the boards fastened securely in the tub, by attach- I ing cords thereto, which are hooked under the bottom of the tub.

I donot claim as new, anything granted me in Letters Patent for improved \vashing -machine, dated the 21st day of July, antedated the 15th day of July,

What I claim as my inventionand improvement,

The combination of the roller N, slide-board H, slide-rod E, and knob, spring-bolt g, or its equivalent,- and notches j, arranged as shown and described.

JAMES K. DUGDALE. Vitnesses:

BENJAMIN W. ADDLEMAN, WM. L. Ronnnrsox. 

